Play
“Spela” means play, and this small but long building, near the old supervisor´s estate at Norrbyskär, contains a game which is the early 20th century´s equivalent to bowling. The only words I can find in English for this game is “skittles” or “ninepin” – could that be right? Please let me know in the comments!
This painting is one of my own favorites, I worked with it for several days. It is rather large (see measures below), and it was an all new experience to work in this size. It took bigger paintbrushes, more planning and more work to keep the paper flat.
134,5 x 37 cm, watercolours on Fabriano Artistico 300 gsm rough grain watercolour paper.
I don’t know from “skittles” or “ninepin”, but I do know that I am thoroughly enjoying your paintings.
I look forward to the next one.
xoxo
Another beautiful painting! Skittles and Ninepins are indeed names for the game, and some pubs in England still have skittle alleys, ie part of a room set aside for it.
Thank you Mary. And thanks for the expression ’skittle alley’. I was looking for the ‘alley’ part of that when trying to explain this building´s function in English, but couldn´t find it online. I don´t have my dictionaries around right now, but now I know how to translate ‘kägelbana’.
I love this one too, Nina! Wow…what an interesting building, and your handling of it is just beautiful. And yep, Mary’s right, those are both names for a very old game, played in the 18th C. Not sure about earlier!
skittles sounds right – another gorgeous mix of landscape and pattern :>)
Wow! I like the others to, but this one is – magic!
As you know by now, skittles is good
I love this painting as I do all of yours. But I especially loved the red hut – it’s the colour I think.
Excellent!
Thats really lovely painting… I was not sure what it is called here, so I had to look it up and in my Swedish/English dictionary its called “Ninepin” (kagla or kagelspel in Swedish). You are right.
Just super! I started to blab on and on, but realized that “Just Super” sums it up!
Yep, I’m with Sandra …. it’s just beautiful! nancy
The game might be better defined by the size of the ball and the shape of the pins. Do you remember: short, squat pins = duckpins; tall slender pins =candlepins, etc.? (I think ’skittles’ sounds the best, tho’.)
Regardless, I’m always bowled over by your work(!).
Hehe, thank you Rock. The pins are rather slender and tall, I´d say. Skittles sounds great in my Swedish ears, I´ll go for that if I meet any English speakers needing an explanation.
They are amazingly gorgeous! =) No wonder they are your favorites!
This one has that WOW factor. I just love it, no surprise there. The architecture in your country is so beautiful. I’m not familiar with the metric system.
Is the USA the only country in the world not on the metric system? I know the science/medical field uses it, but not taught in our schools or used for weights and measures.
If you’re not an English speaker you do a very good job of making yourself understood. Or do you use one of the translator sites?
Is the art show still going on? Have you had any sales from it or commissions?
Joan/Jesse
Thank you so much, Jesse/Joan. I don´t know if USA is the only country not on the metric system, but I do know that the rest of us has an easier math around measures, since the metric is based on 10. You know, ten centimeters equals one decimeter, ten decimeters equals one meter and so on. Easy peasy.
I do not use translator sites, and I am not an English speaker, so I´m very pleased to hear that I´m making myself understood – thanks for letting me know. The art show is still going on, I´m taking the paintings down on the 8th of August. I have sold quite a few paintings (more than a third of the 29 paintings in the show), and no commissions. Yet.
Thank you everyone for helping out with the language here! Ninepin is a very logical name of the game, since there are nine pins in there, but Skittles is kind of funnier (sounds almost like ‘tickles’, even in Swedish – ‘kittlas’), so I´ll probably go for that I get any questions in English about this painting.